My first publishing experience was as an intern at Dystel & Goderich Literary Management, where I shadowed agents to learn the ropes of publishing and became well acquainted with the slush pile Read more »

The Ghost at the Table by Suzanne Berne Buy this book via Amazon.com An exclusive Authorlink interview with Suzanne Berne Author of The Ghost at the Table by Ellen Birkett Morris March 2007 A writing teacher once said to me, 'Whatever you do, don't show your readers your price tags.' The Ghost at the Table is Read more »

An Exclusive Authorlink Interview With Tanya Lee Stone Author of A Bad Boy Can Be Good For A Girl (Wendy Lamb, 2006)) by Susan VanHecke February 2007 A Bad Boy Can Be Good For A Girl (Wendy Lamb) by Tanya Lee Stone ISBN-10: 0385747020 ISBN-13: 978-0385747028 Buy this book via Amazon.com. Though she spent Read more »

The Dead Fathers Club by Phillip Noble Buy this book via Amazon.com An exclusive Authorlink interview with Matt Haig Author of The Last Family in England and The Dead Fathers Club by Ellen Birkett Morris February 2007 An unusual perspective, a uniquely told tale, or a compelling narrative is often the result of the narrators voice. For Read more »

The Handmaid and the Carpenter by Elizabeth Berg Buy this book via Amazon.com An exclusive Authorlink interview with Elizabeth Berg Author of The Handmaid and the Carpenter (Random House, 2006) by Ellen Birkett Morris November, 2006 Novelist Elizabeth Berg believes in the power of the unconscious. So when she woke up from a deep sleep with Read more »

Birds in Fall by Brad Kessler Buy this book via Amazon.com An exclusive Authorlink interview with Brad Kessler Author of Birds in Fall (Scribner, 2006) by Ellen Birkett Morris October, 2006 Author Brad Kessler described books as tombstones marking what the author was going through in that time of his or her life. If his latest book, Read more »

I never had any question that publishing was the arena for me, having grown up loving books, writing bad poetry (my favorite was about a pizza guy), and being fascinated by the way words worked. When I began my job search, my boyfriend at the time was going to journalism school with the daughter of the publisher of Philomel Books, Patricia Lee Gauch Read more »

I remember pretending to read books to my friends when I was a toddler and even before I could read—but I would hold the book upside down! I later remember reading the first three books in the Little House series sitting in my parents’ car on a road trip—reading words I didn’t understand out loud to my Mom. I loved stories of adventure and heroic young girls caught up in strange situations—like LITTLE HOUSE or Read more »